ARTICLES ABOUT REGIONAL POLICE BY DATE - PAGE 2

A Pocono Summit woman has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in a Feb. 16 Mount Pocono car crash, from which she fled on foot when she was told police were on the way, police said. Charmain Ottley, 34, left footprints in the snow after the 11:15 p.m. crash into the front yard at Spruce Drive and Mountain Road, Pocono Mountain Regional police said. Police determined that Ottley was the driver and found her a short time later and not far away riding in another car as a passenger, police said.

An ambulance and a minivan collided Wednesday night at a Route 209 intersection in Stroud Township, injuring a patient and two medical technicians in the ambulance, police said. The 10:30 p.m. collision at Route 209 and Shafers Schoolhouse Road knocked the West End Ambulance on its side, injuring the medics and a woman they were taking to Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg, Stroud Area Regional police said. All three were taken by a second ambulance to Pocono Medical Center.

A Bath man whose car collided in December with a tractor-trailer in Hanover Township, Northampton County, will be charged with driving under the influence of a drug, police said. Gregory A. Janny, 29, of N. Walnut Street was driving north in the 5900 block of Airport Road at 7:30 a.m. Dec. 10 when he crossed into the southbound lane and hit the front of the oncoming tractor-trailer, Colonial Regional police said Wednesday. Police said their investigation determined Janny was under the influence of a controlled substance at the time of the crash, and he will be charged with DUI and several traffic violations.

Colonial Regional police said Thursday they are looking for whoever fired two or three shots Wednesday night in a Hanover Township, Northampton County, neighborhood. The shots were reported at 10:45 p.m. in the 5500 block of Grace Avenue, police said. Witnesses said a vehicle with a loud exhaust drove away immediately after the shooting. Police found two shell casings in the street, which is north of Route 22 and Bethlehem, and west of Bath Pike. No one was reported injured. Police asked that anyone with information on the shooting phone the police station at 610-861-4820 or email Tips@colonialregionalpd.org . — Frank Warner

A traffic stop in Monroe County early Saturday led to a New York man being charged with having a large amount of drugs, including heroin, ecstasy and cocaine, Pocono Mountain Regional police said. Reiner Gil, 20, of New York City, was charged with five counts each of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance and one count each of criminal use of a communication facility, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of an instrument of crime.

A solution to the police-coverage problem in Nazareth could be coming soon, borough officials said Thursday. Nazareth officials are in negotiations with Colonial Regional police to form a joint partnership for supplemental coverage, but Borough Councilman Jack Herbst, police committee chairman, couldn't offer anything concrete at a recent workshop session. A decision will be made "in the next couple months," he said. Nazareth has three full-time police officers, and has been working on supplemental coverage for several months.

Three teenagers stole a Mount Pocono construction worker's van Monday afternoon, but police quickly tracked them down and recovered the vehicle, police said. The van was taken at 4:30 p.m. from a construction site at Pine Hill and Winona roads, Pocono Mountain Regional police said. The van's owner witnessed the theft and phoned for police. James Williams, 18, of Stroudsburg; Jamal Williams, 18, of Stroudsburg; and a 14-year-old boy from Mount Pocono were arrested as they left the van on Belmont Avenue and ran for Route 196, police said.

A former Lower Nazareth Township official and seven others were caught in a prostitution sting in Hanover Township, Northampton County, according to police. Alan V. Dilsaver, 56, of the 300 block of Hillview Drive, is charged with three other men with offering money to an undercover deputy sheriff in exchange for sex acts, Colonial Regional police said. Police said the men answered an ad on Friday evening. The others charged with patronizing prostitutes are Sal Basile, 43, of the 4700 block of Kathi Drive, Bethlehem; Rikin Patel, 26, of the 4100 block of Main Street, Whitehall Township; and Mohamad Asaf, 18, of the 600 block of N. Fifth Street, Allentown.

Police in Monroe County said an armed man robbed a Tobyhanna gas station late Thursday. The man, wearing a black ski mask, walked into the Pen-Mart on Route 196 around 11 p.m. Thursday, pulled a gun on the clerk and demanded money, Pocono Mountain Regional police said. The robber fled on foot with an undetermined amount of money, police said. The robber is described as a black man, between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-10 with a thin to medium build. Besides the ski mask, the robber also wore black gloves, a gray and black striped hooded sweatshirt, police said.

By Pamela Lehman and Frank Warner, Of The Morning Call | November 20, 2012

Two homeless men living in tents argued Monday night and one slashed the other in the face with a machete, Colonial Regional police said. Levine H. Koerner, 57, is charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault and terroristic threats. He was sent to Northampton County Prison under $750,000 bail. Police said the victim, 42-year-old Richard Heilman, and Koerner are homeless and had been staying in tents near a walking path north of the 1400 block of Schoenersville Road, just outside Bethlehem.